Balancing wishes with wisdom: sustaining infant life.

Mary Wakefield-Fisher

Author Information

PMID: 11644099

No abstract text available.

Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act Death and Euthanasia

Congenital, Hereditary, and Neonatal Diseases and Abnormalities

Cost-Benefit Analysis

Decision Making

Ethics Committees

Ethics Committees, Clinical

Euthanasia, Passive

Federal Government

Government

Government Regulation

Hospitals

Human Rights

Humans

Infant, Newborn

Infant, Premature

Intensive Care Units

Jurisprudence

Liability, Legal

Life Support Care

Nurses

Organizational Policy

Parents

Physicians

Public Policy

Quality of Life

Social Control, Formal

Societies

Stress, Psychological

United States

United States Dept. of Health and Human Services

Value of Life

Withholding Treatment

Journal Article

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